Doppelganger Screenshot Contest (NA) - Discussion Thread

[Dargonis]

well this is absolute bs , i had a really nice submission, got alot of likes from the community even, and i know the community didnt go ahead and setup who was the winner, i did have two posts only becuase i messed up the img code and stamped a url on my first post (wish you could edit posts) so in hte end was i disqualified? its frustrating to see people who submitted more then one picture get a win on the 2nd or 3rd picture in a post. obviously this contest wasnt handled fairly

[Selkie]

If this is the kind of backlash the community team can expect for every contest, I can assure you guys they'll stop having them all together.

If they plan to run contests in a similar fashion, it would be for the best that they don't have them. I would prefer contests follow their own guidelines for selection rather than haphazardly throwing something together before work ends on Friday.

"The hundred best images will win a special in-game item for their efforts!"

Can you really defend seven out of eight sylph entries winning? But none that featured a single seasonal NPC? There were many, many entries that didn't win despite being superior and many that won for... seemingly no reason.

[Selkie]

You can't even argue that it was creativity since there were so many repeats. I would prefer them not to hold contests if they're not even going to try. (And I personally thought your first screenshot was better and that you deserved to win for it, but that's my opinion.)

I'm not upset because I lost. I'm upset because of who I lost to.

[Dark-Seraphim]

all depends on if they looked at the entries, or drew them from a hat. If it were most people they would see it was a posting mistake (wrong code used) and keep the correct one. (without seeing your post im assuming that if you manually took the URL it would be the same picture as the working one)

so if it was the same picture i wouldn't think it would disqualify you.

But it add's to my point that i made earlier about the rules needing to be a little more "defined" so you wouldn't have to second guess everything the community team does.

[Selkie]

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I preferred your entry to the one that won, personally. Chronologically yours came first as well, I believe. But that's purely my subjective opinion.

[Dargonis]

thanks selkie, that does make me feel abit better, but knowing i got screwed out by a drg in af+1 body piece leaning over trying to be a mole (not even color matched) and a handful of other people who just put on their crafting AF doesnt really sit well with me, at least the people on my server , congrats to those of you who won, but dont hate me for it because imho you didnt deserve to.

[Dargonis]

and yes i whole heartily agree these kinds of contests should remain out of the game, especially since they cant judge them fairly. i believe this is why WoW removed the WoW winners tabard from the game in the first place.

[Dark-Seraphim]

thanks selkie, that does make me feel abit better, but knowing i got screwed out by a drg in af+1 body piece leaning over trying to be a mole (not even color matched) and a handful of other people who just put on their crafting AF doesnt really sit well with me, at least the people on my server , congrats to those of you who won, but dont hate me for it because imho you didnt deserve to.

I feel that way about the GC dopple's, while i felt it would be a great match it was too EASY (not creative) to just buy 4 items and stand next to them. monster are harder to manage and takes more effort (creativity) to get the right timing with the right weather, right time of day/night, right background setting etc....

[Prido]

lol 7/8 sylphs won. Sylph master race!

Does that make me the Sylph QUEEN?! O v O

Also, I'm half awake, but the posts seem to have become more biting since I last was on here.. o___o What happened to the lovely discussion from last night...

[MortonTaru]

If this is the kind of backlash the community team can expect for every contest, I can assure you guys they'll stop having them all together.

Once again I'm sorry to all those who didn't win; there were a lot of really nice ones, including yours Relentless. And again congrats to all the winners.

Honestly the biggest problem with all of this is Square Enix's blatant disregard for their own guidelines. I understand that you won, but please look at this from the standpoint of some other people. I want to distance myself from the typical sore loser, I'm not mad that I lost, I'm mad at how I lost. It's obvious that Square Enix made some huge boo boos in the decision making process, and I don't mean in their opinions, as the way some of these were decided is kind of silly. As previously stated, there's tons of duplicates, this is bad, and doesn't follow the uniqueness and creativity promoted.